Countless studies have shown that children show significant psychological and physiological effects in terms of their health and well being when they interact with plants. They demonstrate that children function better cognitively and emotionally in green environments and have more creative play in green areas.

A large public health report that investigated the association between green spaces and mental health concluded that “access to nature can significantly contribute to our mental capital and wellbeing”.

In Reiki it is a basic exercise to take conscious of your body and locate by feeling where are located your health problems. It is the first step to healing taking a conscious touch with our body giving chance to the natural attuning.

Even you will not have to make any effort to this technique, it would may result uncomfortable to keep it for a long time. You may start with one minute long and then, taking more time as much as you feel comfortable with the position between 5 – 20 minutes.

In China this pose is know as “Zhan Zhuang Gong” which means “rooting standing posture” and it consists on standing like if we are over a big ball or sphere meanwhile we pretend to “hug” another big ball between our arms. You can keep this posture between 1 to 20 minutes as much as you can, as we said before.

Fist, you need to stand with your feet together and hands extended along the body (starting position)

This illustration will help you to understand the posture:

To finish, get closer your left foot to the right one. put your arms down taking one hand over the other until the point “Dan Tien” (belly button). We must keep this posture until we feel the energy has been discharged and our hands are relaxed. At last, return to the initial posture with the hands along the legs.

You may experience tremors, but don’t worry, this is a symptom of muscular attuning and it may be the energy moving across your nervous system. This just happens at the beginning because your body is not prepared or trained, and this will be disappearing with the time and practice.

Stand in this posture produce a mechanical and static re-education of your backbone and pelvis. It is very good if you have suffered an accident in your back, scoliosis, etc. People who suffer backaches or lumbar pains will notice improvements in health easily.